Lyrics

That Which Blooms in Shadow
Copyright © 2025 David Baumgarten

A flower bloomed where no eyes turned,
calling me in a voice too soft for sound,
"Is anyone there?"

Colder than silence is a loneliness in the crowd
where shadows fold into mine and slowly erase my edges.

Smiling as I pass, nodding as I sink,
the truest me remains abandoned,unseen.

I don't need you all, just one to speak back the Language
Of my soul.

I, should I then change?
In drifting leaves the answer:
"Don't fade. Don't fade."

So I walk though streets unseen like a flame in dusk tending the quiet of an endless source.

One day, you may see this light--but by then I may be gone
...and say you might: "I know you. I see you."

Until then, I bloom in shadow as myself.

Or from a bulb may rise again.
Or from a bulb may rise again.